And so it begins.
Let’s jump in the Wayback Machine and set our coordinates for June 11, 2007. Apple had just announced something called the “iPhone” and with it, an “innovative new way to create applications” for the device.
The premise was simple: In lieu of an actual app store, Apple urged developers to “create Web 2.0 …
A few weeks back, I talked about my hands-on experience with the new Survival Mode in the Spec Ops multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Activision’s finally released a video showing off some of the features that I got to see and implement.
You’ll see the upgrade system interface in action in the clip as well as a few …
Pro hacker tip: When you’re planning to hack someone, don’t tell them in advance. More importantly, don’t tell them exactly when you’re planning to rock their universe.
But that’s just what a video purportedly by hacktivist collective Anonymous does, boasting of an upcoming attack on Facebook, and setting the data for November 5, …
Fruit Ninja Kinect clocked in at 140.11 MB when I downloaded it a few days ago. In terms of file sizes for downloadable games, that’s practically in the featherweight division. It’s barely the size of a DLC pack for many games, but the fun to be had in playing the HD version of the hit iPhone game is very disproportionate to its …
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Professor Dennis Galletta has been teaching a summer course at Harvard on Human Factors in Information Systems Design. As part of it, his students conducted some usability testing of the iPhone 4, Samsung’s Windows Phone 7-based Focus, HTC’s Android-based Thunderbolt, and RIM’s BlackBerry Storm. They had people who hadn’t used …
Amazon.com sells many things.
Its U.K. website, for instance, sells something called a “Military Police Telescopic Tonfa” that looks an awful lot like a night stick and—wouldn’t you know it—is at the top of the “Movers and Shakers in Sports & Leisure” with a whopping 41,341% sales increase over the past 24 hours (as of 5pm …
Apple has been granted a preliminary junction against Samsung, ruling that Samsung’s 10.1-inch “Galaxy Tab” Android tablet be pulled from store shelves “across all of Europe and except the Netherlands,” reports the Telegraph.
The injunction was granted by a judge in Germany, yet is enforceable elsewhere since it’s “possible to apply …
It finally happened: Apple Inc. has passed Exxon Mobil Corp. to become the most valuable publicly traded company in the world.
Though both companies saw their stocks plummet due to market fears, Exxon Mobil’s dive was harder, while Apple seems to be rebounding (but not by much). The oil giant and former “most valuable company in the …
What began as peaceful protests for the shooting death of 29-year old Mark Duggan in Tottenham have turned into something far uglier over the course of three days, as rioters and looters have moved beyond Northern London and into other cities.
Yesterday, we reported that BlackBerry Messenger and Twitter had served as primary …
UPDATE (8:48PM EST): Fox News has made a few statements regarding the difficulties of moderating online comments to Yahoo’s The Cutline blog, which you can read here.
Just because a news network claims to be fair and balanced doesn’t mean its Facebook fans have to be. Following the appearance of Blair Scott, the Communications …
Well, here’s one growth industry in the middle of our dire economic straits: According to a new survey of sales revenue provided by more than 2,000 publishers in the U.S., book sales are rising, with e-book revenue growing a surprising 1,274% between 2008 and 2010.
Revenue on e-books reached $878 million in 2010, with sales hitting …
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Question: Now that my friends are all jumping onboard this Google+ thing, is there a way to sync my posts with Facebook and Twitter?
Answer: If you’re a Chrome user, there’s a promising new extension called Publish Sync …
